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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1057762, member: 19065&quot;]Sandy, try rescanning the coin again, but next time place a sheet of black paper behind the coin. There is an awful lot of reflection and blown out details from the scanner lamp making it hard to see what these spots may really look like in hand. The bright light is also distorting the color of the image. A dark background should improve the image a bit. If you have any adaptive lighting controls with your scan software you should try to scan it under different settings until you find one that works better.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cleaning the coin, even if done properly, may remove any remaining surface contaminants, but may only expose damage done to the surface under the contamination. The removed matter will likely leave the coin equally unappealing and not worthy of being graded, that is, it remains damaged.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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